Stop fooling around Brandon.
Put the hurt on them.
Posted on 03/12/2024 4:06:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Yemeni militia’s three-and-a-half month long campaign of ship seizures, missile and drone strikes has added billions of dollars to global commercial shipping costs, with the fighters vowing to continue their partial blockade of the Red Sea until Israel halts the war in Gaza.
The Houthis will continue their operations against Israel-affiliated commercial vessels and Western warships in the Red Sea throughout the holy month of Ramadan, militia spokesman Yahya Saree has announced.
“We will continue to prevent navigation to the ports of occupied Palestine until the end of the aggression and the siege of Gaza,” Saree said in a statement on Tuesday, while reporting on “a targeted operation against the American ship ‘Pinocchio’ with naval missiles.”
CENTCOM, the US combatant command responsible for operations across the Middle East, confirmed earlier in the day that the Houthis had fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles at the Pinocchio, a Liberian-flagged container ship.
The 50,963 ton, 273-meter long vessel was reportedly on route from Jeddah to the Suez Canal zone, changing course following the attack away from Houthi-controlled territories. The ship’s captain said that there were no injuries onboard following the attack, which took place Monday.
Houthi leader Sayyed Abdulmalik al-Houthi has similarly promised that the militia will continue its operations through Ramadan, which began on March 10 and is set to end on April 9.
“We are entering the blessed month while engaging in a holy war to support the Palestinian people using missiles, drones, financial aid, and widespread popular mobilization,” al-Houthi said in a video address Monday. “When the United States observes missiles and drones approaching its warships, it perceives a significant level of popular support behind these actions,” he added, urging Yemenis to continue taking to the streets for mass demonstrations in support of the Houthi campaign.
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We've always taken the freedom of the seas seriously. Or we used to.
We don’t have a battleship in the inventory. This is what they were made for.
Like it or not, when we take our eye off the ball (goddam that Putin) it tends to really screw up (Putin’s to go, that’s all I care about) the world. Now we’re having to (go Zelensky!!!) have to deal with Third World countries taking (Crimea or bust!) out our Shipping Lanes, and leaving (on to Moscow!) us having to use much more expensive (Russia will take over Europe, all of it!, we must stop them!) means of surface transport.
Luckily, the Biden Administration has shown the ability to multitask.
If Biden wanted to we could make every Houthi position in Yemen disappear in 72 hours and not put a single boot in the ground to do it.
Think about why he isn’t.
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“Think about why he isn’t.”
Perhaps he cannot multitask as well as the Zeepers think he can?
I don’t know why but according to an author interviewed on Al Kresta’s radio show, there is a coordinate sending electronic array on a small ship still sitting in the Red Sea which is directing the Houthi offensives including the missiles endangering ships and helping to avoid US and UK planes. Author had no answer to why wasn’t it sunk already.
Maybe it isn’t really a true story.
And just for good measure, the loss of income from the Suez canal could destabilize Egypt.
But going around the horn of Africa only will increase prices for the west, but ships can do that, as they did when the Suez canal was closed in past wars.
A cluster bomb would come in handy about now.
I apologize to our Euro readers.
Your government in Brussels is a bunch of morons, they are a clown show but with real world consequences to the lives of people in Europe.
Your national governments have sold you out (but so has ours) to supra national interests.
Your leaders are corrupt and in some cases treasonous, leftists, homos, weirdos that I wouldn’t let manage a McDonald’s.
Your only hope is to get rid of most of these people, replace them with fresh blood, new ideas, new approaches, and break the chain of corruption, collusion, and nepotism that is entrenched.
What you have leading you now will run you into the ground.
“Author had no answer to why wasn’t it sunk already.”
Because it’s Iranian.
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You are likely referring to MV Behshad an Iranian ship that loiters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Yemen apparently picking out targets for the Houthis to attack. We may have conducted a ‘cyber attack’ on her, but last I heard, she’s still afloat.
Stop fooling around Brandon.
Put the hurt on them.
Putin already has Biden siding with Hamas against Israel. How long before Israel becomes a BRICS nation? Not long. Will they rename BRICS as BRICSI?
Thanks. That must be it.
Incredible.
“Luckily, the Biden Administration has shown the ability to multitask.”
Where is the great focus? On Afghanistan? On the border? On inflation? Censoring Americans?
What thehellizzat?
Because every strategic interest the U.S. has Biden has a price point to sell us out with?
Video was from a US college student’s meth lab but the point is the same.
(Kidding)
But the marijuana dispensary and warehouse with illegal nitrous tanks in Macomb County in Michigan blew the whole area apart and burned for almost a day.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/03/05/watch-6-videos-of-massive-fire-at-distribution-plant-in-macomb-county/
Biden is behind in the polls. And America loves a strong, decisive leader.
So perhaps Biden’s handlers are waiting for a time closer to the election. Strike then, and Biden gets a temporary bump in popularity.
That plus Democrat cheating might be enough.
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